Stephanie McGregor recently appeared in Romeo and Juliet with Bard in the Botanics. Other theatre credits include The Fumidor (Pants on Fire), Midnight at the Hotel Beauregard (Rose Bruford/Paines Plough), The Love of the Nightingale (The Unicorn Theatre) and The White Devil (The Globe).

Joanne McGuiness

Amaka Okafor

Amaka Okafor’s recent theatre credits include The Snow Queen, The Three Musketeers, Beauty and the Beast, The Tempest (Unicorn Theatre) and Flathampton (Royal & Derngate). Amaka last worked with the National Theatre of Scotland in The Bacchae.

Patricia Panther

Patricia Panther is a Glasgow based soulful electronic independent artist who writes, arranges and records all her own work. Patricia is currently studying a Masters in Music Business and works as a self-shooting producer for BBC Radio Scotland online.

Dawn Sievewright

Dawn Sievewright theatre credits include Letters From Everyone (Lonesome Schoolboy Productions) Legally Blonde (Savoy Theatre), Quadrophenia (UK Tour), Cinderella (The Scoop).

Frances Thorburn (at Citizens Theatre, Glasgow)

Frances Thorburn has recently worked with Cora Bissett in Whatever Gets You Through The Night (The Arches/Vital Spark). Other recent theatre credits include Ana (Stellar Qunines/Imago Theatre), Marilyn (Citizens Theatre) and The Cherry Orchard (Dundee Rep Theatre). Frances last worked with the National Theatre of in The Wolves in the Walls (Improbable). 

Cora Bissett

Cora Bissett is a Director/Actor and Artistic Director of Pachamama. Following a career in music, she has worked extensively in theatre, TV and films including the Palme D'Or winning feature Red Road and in David Mackenzie’ s latest feature You Instead. She won the Stage Award for Best Actor for her role in the Traverse production of David Grieg’s hit rom-com Midsummer which toured to Canada, the US, Brussels, Ireland and Australia. She won the ‘Arches Award for New Directors’ in 2008 and devised and directed her Amada based on an Isabel Allende short story. Pachamama was launched with Roadkill at the Edinburgh Fringe 2010 garnering 9 major awards. Roadkill has played Edinburgh, Glasgow, Paris and London. Roadkill’s London season was a co-production between Pachamama Productions, Richard Jordan Productions Ltd, the Barbican and Theatre Royal Stratford East, in association with Traverse Theatre.

David Grieg

David is a playwright, screenwriter and director. His work for the National Theatre of Scotland includes The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, One Day in Spring, Dunsinane, Peter Pan, The Bacchae and Gobbo. Other recent theatre work includes Yellow Moon, The Monster in the Hall, The American Pilot, Midsummer, Miniskirts of Kabul, Damascus, Pyrenees, San Diego, Outlying Islands and The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union. His production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory opens in the West End in 2013. Work with Suspect Culture includes 8000m, Lament and Mainstream. Translations and adaptations include Tintin in Tibet and King Ubu. Radio plays include The American Pilot, An Ember in the Straw and Being Norwegian. Screenplays and television work include M8 and Nightlife. The Traverse Theatre’s 2002 production of Outlying Islands won a Scotsman Fringe First, Herald Angel and Best New Play at the Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland. San Diego (Edinburgh International Festival/ Tron, Glasgow) won a Herald Angel and the award for Best New Play at the Tron Theatre Awards 2003. David has also won the John Whiting award and a Creative Scotland award.